Brewster’s goal: Store everything. “It is possible,”’ he proclaimed last week at a conference at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose. `“It could be one of the greatest achievements of all time.’”
In that spirit, he also has asked Google to furnish him with a copy of its database, say with a six-month delay so […]

The world just keeps on getting better and better.
I think what is so fascinating is that this is part scary as hell and part “damn that would be so cool to see” type things. Shows you how much Hollywood has desensitized me. Only thing that scares me now are my own dreams.
via Kottke

As reported last week, IDC claimed that Linux overtook Mac as the No. 2 platform worldwide. This week Wired is running an article that the Mac still holds a significant lead over Linux in the desktop market. Who is to be believed? Does it matter?

Kastner’s 3 percent estimate is backed up by numbers published by […]

Voldemort has been cast, and evil, thy name be Ralph Fiennes.
So, we now know who will play the ultimate enemy for Potter in the next few movies. I don’t have a strong opinion on this, but perhaps other people want to comment on who they thought should have been it, or how excited they […]

In late 1993, Becker and Thomas Sterling, both working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, began thinking about the possibilities of cluster computing. In the summer of 1994, Wiglaf — the first Beowulf cluster, sporting 16 66-Mhz 486 DX4 processors connected by channel-bonded ethernet — was born. It cost about $40,000 to build.

Haha, all I […]

Norwegian scientists who explored the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean said Thursday their findings — including what appear to be new species of fish and squid — could be used to protect marine ecosystems worldwide.

Wish they would have included some pictures so we could see what the actual new species look like. Also wonder […]

Wow. Only one more hurdle to go. Too bad that hurdle is the size of Mount Everest.

Potential Google competition? IceRocket is the new kid on the block, and looks to be a site that might just steal some of Google’s users.
The main similarity to Google is the uncluttered homepage which is quick to load. However, it has features Google doesn’t:

Thumbnail views of the sites in your search results. It […]

Unisys Corp. will now support Linux on its high-end ES7000 series servers.
Unisys will offer two distributions of Linux on its ES7000 servers: Suse, from Novell Inc., and Red Hat from Red Hat Inc. Suse Linux will run on up to 32 processors, Red Hat Linux on up to 16, according to Steve Rawsthorn, Unisys vice […]

Alright, if you haven’t heard about this already then you might want to skip down to the resources section that I provided below. Anyways, it seems that many people have tried this website and received their free iPods. Being young and dumb and willing to take risks I decided to jump on the bandwagon and […]

Two worm species discovered in the dark recesses of the deep sea could rival the macabre beasts of your childhood nightmares. Scientists have named a new genus, Osedax, which is Latin for “bone devourer”, for worms that thrive by excavating the bones of fallen whale carcasses.

Bone sucking worms. I have to say that again because […]

I don’t know too much about the history of Napoleon, but I figured this would be of interest to someone out there.

Every day the doctors gave Napoleon an enema to relieve his symptoms. “They used really big, nasty syringe-shaped things,” Karch says. This, combined with regular doses of antimony potassium tartrate to make him vomit, […]

If you’ve ever used BitTorrent (Tomato Torrent client for Mac OS X) and were disappointed by the download speeds, try poking a hole through your firewall from 6881 to 6889. It quadrupled the speeds I was getting.
For those using the default Mac OS X firewall, you can edit the open ports in the “Sharing” section […]

Don’t be so quick to toss out your old PCs, fax machines or digital cameras — office supply retailer Office Depot is partnering with Hewlett-Packard to offer recycling of one electronic product a day for free all through the summer.

I have nothing smart, funny, or witty to say to this one. Good cause and we […]

Free registration may be required

Google Inc. said yesterday that it planned to list its $2.7 billion initial public offering, which has been highly awaited this year, on the Nasdaq market, dealing a blow to the New York Stock Exchange.

I always liked the Nasdaq more since it had the technology companies. Sort of like the geek’s […]

If you know of an OS product that deserves some recognition or would just like to continue to give props to the ones that are already well known then head on over to Linux Journal and place your votes.